Enfield & Wizenty

Somewhere North of Normal

Adam Lindsay Honsinger

“Adam Lindsay Honsinger’s Somewhere North of Normal shows a writer wonderfully adept at a variety of styles – Jorge Borges meets Kurt Vonnegut meets Raymond Carver – all leavened with Honsinger’s own ironic voice in this collection of vividly imagined fictions.” — Antanas Sileika, author of Buying On Time and Underground

“In Somewhere North of Normal, people strive to see clearly through distortions while encountering the mysteries that are other people and navigating trajectories that are bound to swerve. Adam Lindsay Honsinger renders this landscape of the strangely recognizable with intelligent acuity and a keen sense of the absurd.” — Catherine Bush, author of Accusation and The Rules of Engagement

Venture to a place where reality bends: where a dying butterfly may inspire a revelation; where after being electrocuted, an artist’s body becomes a work of art; where a man may wake up after falling four stories to find himself face to face with his ten-year-old self. This outright defiance of that which we hold to be impossible is rooted to varying degrees in each story, not simply because fiction allows it, but because it is within the geography of the imagination that the lost souls of this collection attain transcendence and emotional reconciliation.

Many stories in Somewhere North of Normal have been published in literary journals such as Descant, Prism International, and Exile Quarterly. Two stories were nominated for The Journey Prize Anthology, and one was awarded a Silver at the National Magazine Awards.

“The broad-strokes familiarity of the overarching narrative allows Kepler’s personal peculiarities – and Honsinger’s skills as a writer – to shine through … a novel that feels fresh, rich, and heavy with the thrum of life.” – Robert Wiersema, Quill & Quire

“admirably zany without ever tipping into quirk.”– The Winnipeg Review

About the Author

Adam Lindsay Honsinger

ADAM LINDSAY HONSINGER is a writer, teacher, and illustrator. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. His debut novel Gracelessland (Enfield & Wizenty) was published in 2015. Adam lives and writes in Guelph, Ontario.

Great Plains Publications gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided for its publishing program by the Government of Canada; the Canada Council for the Arts; as well as the Manitoba Department of Sport, Culture and Tourism; and the Manitoba Arts Council.

Great Plains Publications acknowledges we are located on original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation.